Unfortunately, Zhang Yue was powerless in the Hexi incident.

At least for the time being, he has no way to interfere.

I can only quietly watch the development of the situation.

On the other hand, with the rewards of the meritorious generals, the dust gradually settled.

The soldiers finally received their military rewards.

These rewards are mainly divided into three types.

First, the title was title. Originally, in the Qin Dynasty, there was only one kind of military merit!

Even if it is a royal family, it is impossible to get military merits without military merit.

However, in the Han Dynasty, due to the changes since Emperor Taizong, the system of military meritorious lords and land and houses collapsed.

A new pattern of unity and official titles emerged.

Among them, the civil servants became quarantines and became equivalent to gold and copper coins.

As long as you have money and spend about 100,000 yuan, you can have a businessman, prisoner or even barbarian who can have a title that ordinary people need to struggle for a lifetime and enjoy the privileges brought by the title.

Most of the soldiers' former titles were basically civil servants.

Moreover, the five doctors who are the gatekeepers are still a little far away.

Generally speaking, most Han soldiers accumulated military merits throughout their lives were difficult to break through the threshold of the five major doctors.

This is because the title system of the Han Dynasty still implemented the policy of Shang Jun's Qin court system that year!

The five doctors below, especially from the first-level official to the fifth-level doctor, rises very quickly.

Basically, a beheading can be moved to a higher level.

Only five beheadings or captives are required to upgrade from level one to level five.

However, starting from the fifth-level doctor, the decapitation military merit required to ascend to the title is no longer an addition.

Instead it becomes multiplication.

For a doctor to be promoted to a doctor, more than ten beheadings are required. For an official doctor to be promoted to a duke, and forty is required to be promoted to a duke.

As the ninth-level five doctors who are the gatekeepers of the official title, the number of military merits they need is directly increased by five times, and it takes two hundred levels.

The reason for such a terrifying increase is that starting from the five major doctors, it was the ruling class of the Han Empire.

Han Feizi once said: The law of Shang lord is that if one beheads, one is the title of one level. If one wants to be an official, he is a fifty-stone official... The title of official title is consistent with the merit of beheading!

Although the Han system was not like this (the civil servants did not have officials, but only planned to work with their own families), the policy of Shangjun was still implemented at the beginning of the five major doctors.

According to Shang Jun's policy, if the five doctors at the ninth level apply to become officials, the starting point is 600 stones.

In the Han Dynasty, officials of the Six Hundred Shi were deputy officers of county magistrates, county magistrates, county magistrates Bo, Duyou and other officials or heads of important official offices.

Even in the central government, the Six Hundred Stone officials are powerful officials.

Therefore, since Emperor Taizong of the Han Dynasty, the civil and official titles have been clearly divided into classes.

If this system is followed, most of the soldiers who followed Zhang Yue's expedition, and even the middle and lower-level officers, could not meet the standards of the five doctors.

Beheading at level 200, most people are out of reach!

Even those military officers who serve as commanders, team leader, and even many lieutenants will never save this number in their lifetime (Note 1)!

But military merit is not just beheading!

Follow the military period (arriving on time), first (the first to attack/climb/enter the enemy city, strategic location), capture, seize, and obtain, all military merits can be converted into the head level.

In addition, because of the separation of civil titles and official titles in the Han Dynasty.

This gives the Minjue part room to operate.

You can spend money to solve some shortcomings.

However, when the groups involved are a little large, it is not something that a single person can handle.

Therefore, Zhang Yue has been taking his generals to travel between Taichang, Shaofu, Prime Minister's Mansion and Censor's Mansion these days.

At the same time, it also took a lot of time to investigate, clarify and count, and the list of all the meritorious soldiers who had the hope of winning the title of the five major doctors.

Then we start to arrange it.

After careful calculations, we will first spend money to help those among them who have decapitated and lack of military merits to supplement the vacancies as much as possible.

Then he quarreled with the relevant officials of the Jiuqing yamen, trying his best to achieve the general's merits and strive for a relatively high number of beheadings.

All kinds of methods have been used, countless efforts and has spent a lot of money to buy Jue.

Zhang Yue finally won the best and most ideal treatment for his subordinates.

In terms of official titles alone, more than a thousand people have met the standards one after another!

After successfully entering the imperial ruling class, the foundation of the Yingyang system was consolidated from then on.

In addition to these people, Zhang Yue also tried every means to win a relatively good title for them.

However, these titles are of little use.

Generally speaking, many people choose to sell it at the right time.

Compared to this, they were more concerned about other rewards given by the court.

The first is the most important reward of money!

According to convention, there are two types of money given.

The first is the reward that everyone, even if they have no military merits, can get the emperor's reward even if they are just a coachman who makes soy sauce along the way.

The total amount of this bounty is 30 million yuan.

All the soldiers and generals participating in the expedition were distributed equally. By the head, each person received about 20,000 yuan on average!

The reason why he is so generous is not only because the Han army did win this time, but also because of the seized gold and livestock, which are indeed of great value!

Then, the reward is calculated based on military merits.

This money is no longer distributed in the form of Wuzhu coins.

The Shaofu announced that they would use half a year to cast more than 40,000 gold pieces of Lintoe gold, and then distribute them to the meritorious soldiers according to their military merits as a commemoration.

At the same time, they will melt tens of thousands of kilograms of copper and cast copper coins to distribute them to soldiers without nylon toe gold.

Finally, there is a physical reward.

According to military merits and titles, the soldiers participating in the war will receive rewards for land, livestock, agricultural tools, cloth, salt and iron, armor, weapons, etc.

And, it is a real distribution!

All the meritorious soldiers who are self-proclaimed will receive land and mansions that match the titles they have won in their military achievements.

This is amazing!

In other words, any soldier may obtain one hundred acres of land and a mansion.

You can start a family and support your family!

If you have more military achievements, you can get oxen, horses, even bent plows, carts, and even wheat seeds in Xinfeng.

And this is the tradition of the Han army.

As long as you win, everything will be easy.

The rain and dew are all mixed up.

Generals and lieutenant, appointed as marquis and generals, promoted and made money, glorified the ancestors, lower-class soldiers, breaking class barriers, transforming themselves into landlords and powerful people, laying a solid material foundation for their descendants!

If it is not good, you can go from a tenant farmer's family to a self-cultivated farmer's family.

Just like this time, the Changshui Captain, the Huheng Captain, the Feihu Army, and even the clans who followed Zhang Yue to the expedition, the Wuheng Yilu, and the Xiongnu Yilu, and everyone made a fortune!

Plus they had previously shared wealth from the spoils.

Nowadays, any soldier in the army has tens of thousands of dollars in his pocket.

The soldiers of the Changshui Captain were fine. They had been stationed in Guanzhong before and knew that the money should be used properly.

But the others are different.

Especially Wu Hengyi and the Xiongnu Yi, the reward has just been sent.

They completely let themselves go.

The merchants in Chang'an City have long been eyeing them.

The day after the reward was paid, many rangers hired by merchants appeared outside the military camp.

These rangers did not do anything else, but just squatted around the outside of the military camp. When they saw someone coming out of the military camp, they stepped forward and approached them, and then took the opportunity to recommend various lively and wonderful things in Chang'an City.

Flowers, willows and alleys are the key points.

Other cockfighting and dogfighting venues in Song Street, the wine shops and markets in the nine cities in Chang'an also have their own recommendations.

These guys talked about lotus flowers and said it was full of splendor. The soldiers of the Feihu Army and the Captain Guarding Wuheng were in great joy and could not help themselves.
To be continued...